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CVE-2014-5351

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5351 is a vulnerability in the kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function within the kadmind component of MIT Kerberos 5 versions prior to 1.13. This flaw allows remote authenticated users with administrative access to receive old keys when requesting a new random key with the -keepold option, potentially enabling them to forge Kerberos tickets. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability has a low severity, requiring high attack complexity and authentication for a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0262 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 1,638 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: krb5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: krb5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: krb5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5351Moderate

krb5: current keys returned when randomizing the keys for a service principal

Aug 21, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0477.html
krbdev.mit.edu / rt/Ticket/Display.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140132.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/97028
github.com / krb5/krb5/commit/af0ed4df4dfae762ab5fb605f5a0c8f59cb4f6ca
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/70380
securitytracker.com / id/1031003
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2498-1